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10502577 No.10502577 [Reply] [Original]

So you guys say that if I want to understand anything I need to start with the greeks. So now I feel like I'm slowly losing my sanity.

When can I finally stop with the greeks?

>> No.10502602

You can stop whenever you want, asshole. I know you wanna read the full greek works.

To be honest with you, I read quite a bit of stuff and I haven't read too much of the Greeks myself. I don't plan on reading too much from then anytime soon (maybe next year) because reading takes time.

But yeah, I try to read often, and I've only read like 10 Platonic dialogues, a few different scripts from Epicurus, a little bit of the Iliad, and that's about it if you don't count mathematicians.

Seriously fuck the Greeks go read some real shit.

>> No.10502621

>>10502602
Try not to be too positive you fucking cynic

>> No.10502622

>>10502602
>Idiotic post
>Admits to not reading the Greeks
Intentional?

>> No.10502625

>>10502621
Okay fuck you too we're going places

:D

>> No.10502632

>>10502622
I have read the Greeks though. I just don't spend a lot of time on them. For instance, I'm reading The Social Contract right now. And having only read Plato is perfectly fine for that.

Also, Hobbes.

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10502638

>tfw currently reading Herodotus
ABSOLUTELY
C O M F Y

>> No.10502647

>>10502638
Oh yeah I read that too.

Everyone's read The Histories.

It's like the Bible before the Bible was cool

>> No.10502665
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10502665

>>10502632
...No shit
But you haven't read Dante, Milton, Nietzsche, Keats, Holderlin or Heidegger
Because you're commenting stupid shit like this
We read the Greeks for recreation, because they are great, not as a pre-requisite

>> No.10502689

>>10502665
No, I've read two books by Nietzsche.

Preferred Kierkegaard for existentialism.

>> No.10504294

>he fell for the charts meme
Anon you just start with foundational Greeks, usually Illiad Odyssey and Plato's Socratic Dialogues, and then you pick up on certain themes or subjects you want to explore and pick up a primary source on that subject and keep going up through the development of that subject.
You can literally go from The Republic to Summa Theologica and skip the entire period in-between if A: that's what you want to do and B: you're not averse to backtracking to fill in gaps of your knowledge on specific subjects.
Reading isn't a completionist activity. You could read solely the Greeks for the rest of your life.